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W. H. BARR.

FIRE ESCAPE STEP ROD ATTACHMENT.

No. 328.636. Patented Oct. 20, 1885.

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\VILLIAM H. BARR, OF OONW'AY, MISSOURI.

FIRE-ESCAPE STEP-ROD ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,636, dated October20, 1885.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. BARR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Gonway, in the county of Laclede and State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Escape Step-RodAttachments, of which the following is a specifieation.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in means forenabling persons to escape from a burning building; and the inventionconsists in the peculiar combinations and the construction andarrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, and thenspecifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification,Figurel is a perspective View of a building with my improvement appliedthereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the rods detached, andFig. 8 is a sectional detail showing the manner of securing the rods inplace.

Referring 110w to the details of the drawings, the letter A designates arod, which is formed preferably of ironand of the form shown in thedrawings. I usually make these rods about thirty inches long, with theends B of such a length that when they are inserted in the wall of abuilding the rod will projectahout six inches from the wall; but I donot wish to limit myself to the exact dimensions of the rods, as it isevident that the same may be varied without departing from the spiritofmy invention.

The ends B of the rods A are provided with slots 0, the object of whichwill soon be explained. In practice these rods A are driven or otherwiseinserted into the Wall of a build ing either to the right or left of awindow, and preferably about twelve inches apart, and extend nearly tothe ground. I also place two of them under each window, to aid andsupport theindividual while coming out of the window. After these rodsare driven into the wall a key, Z), is inserted into the slots (4 oftheprojecting ends 3, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, thus preventing the rodsfrom being pulled out or working loose when any one is descend ing onthem.

By my construction I provide a cheap,strong, and e'lticient means ofescape in case of tire, and one that is very durable and always readyfor use.

What I claim as new is The rods A, the projecting ends B of which

